(2025-05-01). Palestinian student activist Mohsen Mahdawi released from ICE custody by court order. wsws.org Mahdawi was a leading figure alongside Mahmoud Khalil in the student protests against Israel's genocide against Gaza at Columbia University in 2023 and 2024.
(2025-04-30). U.S. federal judge gives Columbia University student graduate Mahmoud Khalil chance to challenge detention in court. radiohc.cu Newark, May 1 (RHC) ⚪ A New Jersey federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration's attempts to dismiss a federal lawsuit brought by jailed Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, arguing the U.S. government is illegally detaining him for his political views.
(2025-04-30). Why Protesters Are Being Sent To For-Profit ICE Prison In Rural Louisiana. popularresistance.org In recent weeks, students Mahmoud Khalil, Ràºmeysa àñztàºrk, and Alireza Doroudi were abducted by ICE and are being held in ICE detention centers in rural Louisiana. Khalil's powerful statement connects multiple realities that demonstrate how state repression is activated to support the rise of authoritarianism. | That Khalil and others are being sent to detention centers in remote towns across Louisiana is not an accident. Rising authoritarianism requires a police state, and the expansion of prisons, police, and detention centers is extremely profitable. As the current U.S. government disappears…
(2025-04-30). "To Save and to Destroy" : Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Book Exploring Otherness, Refugees, Gaza & More. democracynow.org 
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the president's chaotic trade war, detentions and deportations of pro-Palestinian advocates and more. Nguyen has just released a new book of essays, originally delivered as lectures, that explore otherness and belonging in U.S. history. "I think otherness is a universal condition," says Nguyen. "I'm sure we all have, at one time or another, thought ourselves to be odd or alienated or not fitting in in some way. But the difference for certain people is that otherness is c…